By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – A new digital collection at Washington State University Libraries shows how propaganda posters – or “weapons on the wall” – helped governments influence citizens’ public and private behavior and decisions during World Wars I and II.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Patrons of Washington State University Libraries soon will use a single search box to find journals, books and digitized collections. Users will see other improvements, too, including access to some 9 million titles and 26 million resources from 36 other higher education institutions.
Join the WSU Libraries to explore this year’s International Open Access Week theme: “Redefining Impact.” An exciting lineup of speakers and events will explore alternative ways of tracking the impact of scholarly work, http://libguides.wsulibs.wsu.edu/openaccess.
PULLMAN – Trevor Bond was named the permanent head of WSU Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections (MASC) this month. Bond joined the WSU Library faculty in 1998 as Interim Manuscripts Librarian in MASC and has served as Interim Head of MASC for three years. Before his arrival at WSU, Bond worked in […]
Reflecting a trend among research universities, the next head of WSU Libraries will have the title “dean” rather than “director.” “The WSU Libraries’ director has long been a member of both the College of Deans and the university cabinet and functions as a dean, but the old title had not been changed,” said Cynthia Kaag, […]
Assign a classroom of high school students to research and write a paper on nearly any topic, and the vast majority will scurry off to their computers to copy information from the Internet. Given the poor reputation and inaccuracy of some Web-based information and the current problem with plagiarism, this marks a tough issue for […]